V. Larkin Martin manages Martin Farm, a family farm in Courtland, Alabama. The farm operates on owned and rented land. Their primary crops are corn, cotton, soybeans and wheat. She is also Chairman of the Board of Servico, a cotton ginning and agricultural services ...
Angi Rassi is a growth accelerator, senior business leader and executive coach that is passionate about scaling high potential businesses in the natural products space. Angi is currently the Vice President of Innovation and Business Development at John B. Sanfilippo & Son, Inc where ...
Tina Swithin is the author of Divorcing a Narcissist (series) and founder of One Mom’s Battle, Family Court Awareness Month and the High Conflict Divorce Coach Certification Program. Tina Swithin continues to champion children’s rights through her family court advocacy. Tina is working to ...
Liza is Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) and was born in Hawaiʻi and raised on the island of Oʻahu. In her work, she is deeply committed to indigenous Hawaiian issues, social justice for all people, and creating spaces that cultivate anti-colonialism and equity. She is ...
Susan Skjei, Ph.D. (last name pronounced “shay”) has been consulting with leaders, executive teams and boards of non-profit organizations, businesses, and government agencies for over 25 years. She has a unique ability to create energetic and high trust learning environments that accelerate the achievement ...
Marcela Olivera is a water commons organizer based in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Since 2004 she has been helping to develop and consolidate an inter-American water justice network named REDVIDA. She is also a member of the Platform for Community Partnerships of the Americas (PAPC), an ...
Nora Bateson is an award-winning filmmaker, writer and educator, as well as President of the International Bateson Institute, based in Sweden. Her work asks the question “How we can improve our perception of the complexity we live within, so we may improve our interaction ...
Dr. Dianne Regisford is a mother, dynamic social sculpture practitioner, social impact entrepreneur, cultural diversity advocate, racial equity strategist, poet and energy healer. Dianne is invested in regenerative ARTivism for belonging, advocacy and Indigenous Diaspora Knowledge making for minoritised communities in urban place-making. Dianne ...
After growing up in Virginia and attending college in Richmond and Charlottesville, I ventured up to New England to begin my career in the textile, apparel and footwear industries. I've lived in Portsmouth NH for the last 23 years currently with my daughter Sadie ...
Sherry Hess, the living flavor advocate, Tedx Speaker, and founder of The Flavor Remedy, is here to stand up for flavor, to shine a light on the imposters who pretend to be nutritious. Sherry believes that flavor is not only something to be embraced ...
Linda Black Elk is an ethnobotanist and food sovereignty activist specializing in teaching about culturally important plants and their uses as food and medicine. She is eternally grateful for the intergenerational knowledge of elders and other knowledge holders, who have shared their understandings of ...
With over 25 years of experience in agriculture, Donna Kilpatrick specializes in pasture-based livestock production, ecosystem restoration and land stewardship. She leads Heifer Ranch in Perryville, Arkansas where she serves as an Accredited Professional with the Savory Institute, the world’s leading regenerative agriculture organization, ...
Hi, I’m Erin. I’m a multidimensional spiritual freedom guide. I assist people in getting out of their own way in order to let the creative life force of the universe flow through and express through them. I assist in healing and growth by holding ...
Niquole Esters is an environmental conservationist with a passion for the oceans and geopolitics. With a background in international relations, governance, and policy she works in the space between sustainable natural resource management, conservation, and economic development to protect important ecosystems and the services ...
With over twenty years in operational and human-resource leadership positions, Jen's expertise is in designing and creating employee retention and engagement programs, which include both individual well-being resources and community volunteering projects. Additionally, she is responsible for the management and implementation of primary strategies ...
Beth Jensen is Director of Climate+ Impact at Textile Exchange, the leading global nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the use of sustainable materials and fibers within the apparel, footwear, and home textiles industries. Beth oversees the evolution and implementation of Textile Exchange& “Climate+” strategy through leadership of ...
Karen Washington is a farmer and community activist, striving to make the New York City a better place to live. As a community gardener and board member of the New York Botanical Gardens, she worked with Bronx neighborhoods to turn empty lots into community ...
Alex is a connecter, facilitator, and operator passionate about bringing world changing ideas to life. She has led teams in a diversity of contexts and now serves as Operations Manager at nRhythm. Alex is passionate about solving the world’s most complex social and environmental ...
Tiffanie Drayton is a mother, world traveler, and journalist whose work has been featured in The New York Times, Vox, Marie Claire, Playboy, Salon, and Complex, and on Yahoo, among other outlets. Tiffanie fled the U.S. in the face of persistent racism and economic ...
Esther is the CEO of Cienega Capital, a regenerative investment firm utilizing an integrated capital approach to systemic change in the areas of soil health, regenerative agriculture, and local food systems. Prior to joining Cienega Capital, Esther founded Commons Stock, an impact-focused due diligence ...
Bethany Davis is the Director of Advocacy and Government Affairs for MegaFood. She is the President for the Coalition for Supplement Sustainability, a group of supplement and ingredient companies that united to support a non-GMO and sustainable supply chain. In addition to her service ...
Kelsey Scott is a fourth generation tribal rancher that calls the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation home. She’s the owner of DX Beef, LLC, a direct-to-consumer regenerative beef operation. Kelsey is the Natural Resources Director for the Intertribal Agriculture Council, a national 501(c)(3) non-profit organization ...
Jessica Chiartas is a PhD candidate in Soils & Biogeochemistry at the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on the long-term impacts of agriculture on soil carbon and overall soil health with a unique focus on carbon at depth. She is interested in ...
Clarenda "Farmer Cee" Stanley M.Ed is CEO of Green Heffa Farms, a medicinal plants and herb farm in Liberty, NC that is also the nation's first Black owned farm to earn Certified B Corp status. Honoring and acknowledging the contributions of her enslaved ancestors, ...
A nearly 30 year veteran of the natural products industry, Angela most recently served as the CEO and President of Gaia Herbs, leading and building North America’s top herbal supplement brand for over a decade. These roots have enabled her to dig deeply into ...
A lifelong ocean advocate, Vicki earned a Master’s degree in marine policy from Yale University. Working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), she co-wrote the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Designation documents and served as NOAA liaison to the California Sanctuary sites. For ...
Marci coined the term and pioneered the market for ECOfashion, and is an internationally-recognized ECOlifestyle entrepreneur, educator and expert. Founder of Under the Canopy, Producer of THREAD|Driving Fashion Forward, and Co-Founder of Good Catch and The Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Marci has been instrumental ...
Lara has nearly twenty years of consumer packaged goods marketing, sales, and general management experience with an emphasis on bringing healthy product innovations to the natural and mass market. For the past five years, she has provided strategic sales, marketing and leadership consulting to ...
Carol is the Senior Manager of Global Sustainability at The North Face, where her work spans all aspects of TNF’s environmental footprint, from retail waste to regeneratively-grown raw materials. She oversees the brand’s sustainability initiatives and helps teams across the brand action on The ...